{"product_id":"burn-the-place-a-memoir","title":"Burn the Place: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore she ran a Michelin-starred kitchen, Iliana Regan was a farm kid in Northwest Indiana who could spot chanterelles in the family fields. Her memoir traces the road between the two.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReadical Key Points\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLonglisted for the 2019 National Book Award, according to the publisher\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA memoir by the self-taught chef who founded Elizabeth, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Chicago\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSubjects include a rural childhood, foraging and food, gender and sexuality, and work in restaurant kitchens\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContent note: addresses the author's addiction and alcoholism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHardcover, 250 pages, Agate Midway, 2019\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe youngest of four sisters, Regan spent her childhood on a small Indiana farm picking berries and hunting chanterelles, long before she cooked for a living. In her account, people were harder to read than the land: she was a girl who wanted to be a boy, growing up gay where that was not accepted, and drinking heavily before twenty. The book follows her from a first restaurant job at fifteen, through an underground supper club, to a kitchen of her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFood lovers, readers of literary memoir, LGBTQ+ readers and readers of addiction memoirs are the audiences the publisher names for it. The Michelin star arrives late in the story. The farm fields come first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIliana Regan is a self-taught chef. She founded the Michelin-starred restaurant Elizabeth and the pub Kitsune in Chicago, and Milkweed Inn in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. A James Beard Award and Jean Banchet Award nominee, she was named one of Food \u0026amp; Wine's Best New Chefs in 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Brand New and Readical Ready.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReadical™ is an independent bookstore and reading-products brand built around a simple idea: books matter most when what we learn leaves the page and enters our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eApply the Page. Get Readical™.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Agate Midway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47854478557333,"sku":"NEW-ING-1572842679","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0800\/5861\/3909\/files\/57_d5740f70-9c48-40d4-96dc-e4395aee5899.jpg?v=1787904125","url":"https:\/\/readical.com\/products\/burn-the-place-a-memoir","provider":"Readical","version":"1.0","type":"link"}